Re: Movies for the 8-bit Apples IIs with Tutor-Tech!

[obsbedia2@aol.com (Obsbedia2)]

<< >        I figured out how to make movies run on the 8-bit Apple IIs by
using 
>Tutor-Tech--and it works!!
Jay: way cool!!

-Bart
 >>


Thanks Bart!

	I think that Dr. Tom Turley planted the seed of how to do it in my mind when
he published here two or three years ago about using a IIgs paint program to
create movies on the IIgs (BTW, I meant to say "mpegs" or "animated gifs",
instead of "jpgs" in my original post).  Well, the 8-bit Apple IIs don't have a
paint program with that capability--well, maybe it could be done with
Animation, come to think of it, but my way is cooler because they can be used
within or attached to hypermedia stacks!  Now, without using a Video Overlay
Card and/or sending commands to turn on and off a VCR or laser disc player, the
movies can pure software origined.  I'm still limited to 32K per stack, so if
anyone wants to figure out a better way, I'm all for it, because I figure that
a one-megabyte card would allow a three and one-half minute movie.

	As it is, for Tutor-Tech stacks, this allows a movie clip to be placed in a
stack or in a linking stack.  

�Want to see a short video clip of an experiment?  

�How about a fly-around of the Space Station Freedom?  

�A little history with the clip of the jet hitting the first tower?  

�The winning play of the SuperBowl?  

�The birth of a gray whale?

�Space Shuttle launch/landing?

�Instructional video on how to flip over a disk?

�Action in a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure stack?

�Action in a window drawn in an indoor background?


=========================
�Other ideas, everybody?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

			Jay Edwards